Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...

Today’s maps lie — because for most of human history, the world looked nothing like this. During the last Ice Age, ice sheets ...

If you've seen any of the "Ice Age" animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don't know the real ice age. For the first time since 1972, NASA is putting science experiments on the moon in ...

Some of the key samples in the study came from the La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California, where researchers analyzed ancient juniper wood preserved in tar. The team found clear signs of elevated ...

Mars’s gravity shapes ice ages on Earth, new research finds - Red Planet’s gravity plays a significant role in climate cycles ...

Computer simulation of Earth's climate evolving over one million years in response to a sudden release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was ...

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of ...

What rate has sea ice been decreasing in the last few decades? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the history of sea ice decline ...

Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the next ice age arrives on time instead of being delayed, researchers say. When ...

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